In the Spatial Join tool’s dialog navigate to the Zoning field in the dataset that is being joined and Right-click on it.That function allows to list the attribute values from a particular field (of the feature class that you’re joining to the target layer) and enter them into a designated field using a user-defined delimiter. You can try Python and that’s what I was about to do however, it turned out that the Spatial Join tool which I had been using for many years contains a hidden function. If you use Union, you will end up with even more polygons and you’ll get stuck trying to aggregate the resulting polygons using Dissolve (which won’t work because Zone is a text field and you can’t really use a text field in statistical calculations). You will end up with having multiple overlapping polygons: If you use the Spatial Join tool with the following parameters (even if you try to use both types of relationships available in the tool) Well, obviously some of the properties intersect two zones and in the real-world example they can intersect even more zones. What if you were provided with the task to transfer the attribute of the “Zone code” to the attribute table of the property boundaries? The following simplified graphic illustrates the case (very schematically, I must add):

One property can fall within several adjacent zoning polygons, which effectively defines the cardinality (or the type of the relationships between features in both datasets) as One to Many (Properties to Zones). properties) and another one representing zones (i.e.

Imagine you had a polygon feature class representing cadastral boundaries (i.e.

Recently, a couple of my clients asked me how to solve the following problem.

From time to time, even the experienced GIS users (my 17 years in GIS allow me to call myself one) come across hidden tools and workflows that have existed in ArcGIS for Desktop for ages, but have never been used.

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